Quick report
- Slope Angle
- 40°
Avalanche
- Slab Width
- 21 m
- Weak Layer
- New Snow/Old Snow Interface
- Trigger Type
- Skier
- Vertical Fall
- 61 m
- Avalanche Type
- Soft Slab
- Slab Thickness
- 30 cm
- Trigger Detail
- Intentionally Triggered
- Start Zone Aspect
- East
- Avalanche Problem
- Wind Slab
- Start Zone Elevation
- 2743 m
- The area had naturally avalanched within the last couple hours, but our VIP guest, Bruce Engelhard, dropped a small piece of cornice on the slope and a pretty nice soft slab popped out. A great example of manageable avalanche conditions.
- The second photo is of some of the fresh natural activity in the central region of the bowl; cornice-falls and resulting small wind slabs. We saw evidence of other natural activity and a few natural wind slabs ran while we were in the area, triggered by cornice falls.
- The third photo is looking back up at the crown of our cornice-fall triggered soft slab from a distance.